A modest portrait, Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, camera in Peter Orlovsky's hand, our room down-street from Bill Burroughs' Villa Muniria, Tangier 1961

1961, printed later

Allen Ginsberg

Associated Names
Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

The image shows a full-body photograph of two men standing side by side against a plain indoor wall. The man on the left has short, neatly styled hair, and wears glasses. The man on the right has thick, curly dark hair. Both men are unclothed. The background is a simple, undecorated wall, and there is handwritten text at the bottom of the image.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary S. Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 30.3 x 20.2 cm (11 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 41.8 x 31.9 cm (16 7/16 x 12 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2011.146.37

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary and Ellen Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2011.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed and captioned by artist, across bottom in black ink: A modest portrait, Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, camera / in Peter Orlovsky's hand, our room down-street from Bill / Burroughs' Villa Muneria, Tanger 1961. Allen Ginsberg; on verso, by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-115; bottom right: GDC-892; bottom left on mount circled: #40; bottom center: #730 CD-AG-115 GDC-892; bottom right: 28

Wikidata ID

Q64073529

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